Review of Walk Tall

Walk Tall (1960)
5/10
Bad guys selling whiskey to the Indians again
7 November 2016
Walk Tall, shot on a shoestring budget, but nevertheless has its moments might have been a classic had some major studio done it. It certainly has a C list cast.

Willard Parker formerly in Tales Of The Texas Rangers on television has a mission to bring in deserter Kent Taylor who since leaving the army quite unofficially has a nice little business trading with the Shoshone guns and whiskey. He gets him, but also coming as part of the package widow Joyce Meadows.

The plot bears some little resemblance to the Jimmy Stewart classic western The Naked Spur. Parker has to contend with Holden's sympathy for Taylor not seeing him for the rat he is, Taylor's outlaw confederates on their trail and the Shoshone.

Nothing spectacular, but nicely plotted and one ironic ending.
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